Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... allowed themselves to be laughed off the stage of personal significance and are gratuitously ready to exit weeping . A premature capitulation . Please overlook in this chapter any unintended outrage of your common sense and ...
... allowed themselves to be laughed off the stage of personal significance and are gratuitously ready to exit weeping . A premature capitulation . Please overlook in this chapter any unintended outrage of your common sense and ...
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... allowed officially . Though , feeling like a host , I probably gabbed too warmly , I enjoyed their visit . What amused me most was the straight line of black - suited figures seated stiffly in the high - backed chairs sharply outlined ...
... allowed officially . Though , feeling like a host , I probably gabbed too warmly , I enjoyed their visit . What amused me most was the straight line of black - suited figures seated stiffly in the high - backed chairs sharply outlined ...
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... allowed . But let him speak for himself and all hopefuls who believe in the on - going process of becoming and eternal life . The already disciplined naturalist of the Beagle is as bug - eyed as a child wit- nessing the unloading of ...
... allowed . But let him speak for himself and all hopefuls who believe in the on - going process of becoming and eternal life . The already disciplined naturalist of the Beagle is as bug - eyed as a child wit- nessing the unloading of ...
Contents
Preface Foreword Poem Sonnet to Death Chapter I The Ferries at Bayhead Death as Natural Transition | 1 |
Last Things First Necessity of a Point of View | 11 |
God on Trial The Problem of Evil | 19 |
Copyright | |
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